Lance Olsen

Lance Olsen (Grad ’82, Grad ’85) received both a Guggenheim Fellowship for his fiction and the 2013 Berlin Prize in Fiction from the American Academy in Berlin. Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa, has invited him as a Mellon Visiting Scholar for the month of October 2013, during which time he will help set up an innovative creative writing program. The university will use Mr. Olsen’s anti-textbook, Architectures of Possibility: After Innovative Writing, as a foundation for the program. Mr. Olsen, who has written numerous novels, critical studies and short story collections, is a professor of literature and creative writing at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.